Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overthrow.
- To make (the soles) sore by walking; bruise or batter by travel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.
- transitive verb obsolete To harass; to fatigue.
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- verb obsolete To
bruise , hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.
Etymologies
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Back-formation from surbated.
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knitandpurl commented on the word surbate
"She stood there with a ragged cob in her eyes and surbate hooves almost too tender to walk upon, but she was tall, and still awesome in her shabbiness."
"Twins" by C.E. Morgan, in The New Yorker, June 14 & 21, 2010, page 130
July 13, 2010